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The Sweetest Punch

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Released
  
September 21, 1999

The Sweetest Punch (1999)
  
For the Stars (2001)

Release date
  
21 September 1999

Label
  
Decca Records

Length
  
64:09

The Sweetest Punch (1999)
  
Ghost Town (2000)

Producer
  
Lee Townsend

Genres
  
Jazz, Rock music

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Artists
  
Elvis Costello, Bill Frisell

Similar
  
Elvis Costello albums, Jazz albums

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The Sweetest Punch is a 1999 album by Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell, released as a companion album to 1998's Painted from Memory. Many of the earlier album's songs are featured with new arrangements by Frisell, mostly in instrumental versions.

Contents

Vocals for three of the tracks are also featured, with Costello on "Toledo", Cassandra Wilson on "Painted from Memory", and Costello and Wilson in a duet on "I Still Have That Other Girl".

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Track listing

All songs written by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach, except "Vamp Dolce", written by Frisell.

  1. "The Sweetest Punch" – 4:44
  2. "Toledo" – 5:25
  3. "Such Unlikely Lovers" – 5:43
  4. "This House Is Empty Now" – 5:03
  5. "Painted from Memory" – 4:10
  6. "What's Her Name Today?" – 4:58
  7. "In the Darkest Place" – 5:55
  8. "Vamp Dolce" – 3:25
  9. "My Thief" – 4:31
  10. "I Still Have That Other Girl" – 2:22
  11. "Painted from Memory (Reprise)" – 3:36
  12. "Long Division" – 3:59
  13. "Tears at the Birthday Party" – 3:44
  14. "I Still Have That Other Girl (Reprise)" – 1:52
  15. "God Give Me Strength" – 4:42

Personnel

  • Bill Frisell — electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Brian Blade — drums, percussion
  • Don Byron — clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Billy Drewes — alto saxophone
  • Curtis Fowlkes — trombone
  • Viktor Krauss — bass
  • Ron Miles — trumpet

    • Charts

    Album

    Songs

    1The Sweetest PunchBurt Bacharach4:46
    2ToledoBurt Bacharach5:27
    3Such Unlikely LoversBurt Bacharach5:45

    References

    The Sweetest Punch Wikipedia
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